"But if I didn't read, I'd think, and thinking, when you come down to it, is the most painful thing of all, and the most monopolizing"

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Source : Éric Rohmer (1980). “Six moral tales”, Viking Books

Eric Rohmer

#Thinking Quotes #Painful Quotes #Monopolizing Quotes

“My own fashion sense has been influenced by 'We'll Take Manhattan.' It's gotten a little better.”
“If I see what you're up to on Facebook but I don't see your updates on Flickr, I'll still care about Facebook.”
“But it becomes disrespectful when the artist's process is not respected.”
“taste is like a sense of humor. I never met a person who didn't think they had one.”
“If . . . a principle of true Religion [i.e., true Christianity] should . . . gain ground, there is no estimating the effects on public morals, and the consequent influence on our political welfare.”
“You take one bomber and deploy him in Baghdad, and another is manufactured in Riyadh the next day. It's exactly like when you take the toy off the shelf at Wal-Mart and another is made in Shen Zhen the next day.”
“Iâ€™ve never agreed with the conventional wisdom that â€˜actors are great liars.â€™ If more people understood the acting process, the goals of good actors, the conventional wisdom would be â€˜actors are terrible liars,â€™ because only bad actors lie on the job. The good ones hate fakery and avoid manufactured emotion at all costs. Any script is enough of a lie anyway. (What experience does any actor have with flying a spacecraft? Killing someone?) Whatâ€™s called for, what actors are hired for, is to bring reality to the arbitrary.”
“The Japanese, implementing a complex, long-term, and ultimately successful strategy to dominate the U S consumer-electronics market, attacked Pearl Harbor.”

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